Is it still possible to write a History of Ancient Israel

Abstract In this paper three examples of historical information in the OT are discussed: 1) the building of Pithom and Ramses in Exod 1,11; 2) the Ben‐jaminite conquest traditions, and 3) the tradition‐historical relationship between David and Solomon and Omri and Ahab. The outcome is that the OT historians can be seen to have manipulated freely with traditions, the origin of which they had no change to trace. Thus these examples can be reckoned as new examples of the incompability between the OT history of Israel and the history of Palestine in Ancient times.